Hi guys, Really sorry about the lack of contact, I realised its been 6 weeks and four countries since I last updated you! I'll try and do as many blogs as possible today (before I get bored), so grab a cup of tea! So I last left you in Addis. From Addis, we had another stint of bush camping, this time through to Kenya. For two long days, we had really rubbish bumpy roads. The long drive days were interesting - on the one day, we were driving happily along...

Hi guys, So following our experiences with the Sudanese police, we managed to enter over into Ethiopia relatively easily. We spent our first evening having a couple of beers and playing volleyball with the locals in a small town where we were staying. Driving through Ethiopia to Gonder was absolutely stunning, its such a pretty country and so green - don't believe the charity ads, the countryside is very lush, there are lots of crops and their cattle look ...

Hi everyone, Apologies for the delayed blog - most of the internet over here is wifi and I'm having to borrow other's laptops/tablets, so has been pretty difficult to spend some quality time on the internet, but we've found a good internet cafe in Addis Ababa, so will try and do two blogs. I last left you in Egypt - let's just say I was glad to leave! Egypt was interesting and beautiful for the historical sights, but I can safely say I've got no desire to...

Hello everyone! So I last left you in Aswan, on our way to Abu Simbel. We went there in the middle of the night to see sun rise on the statues inside - after a 3 hour ride in military convoy, we finally arrived. The actual experience of seeing the statues at sunrise was really disappointing, but I actually managed to extract an apology from an Egyptian man (no mean feat I must add!). The actual statue itself was beautiful, as was the artwork inside and as it w...

Cairo - how to describe it…utter chaos!! I have never seen such bad traffic congestion, it took us 3 hours to leave Cairo a couple of days ago! Not only is there awful congestion, but the drivers are a nightmare. To walk across the road is to risk your life, even being in a car is scary! Even though there are lanes and traffic lights, everyone ignores them, driving in-between lanes and rather than signalling to move, they just beep their horns, its madness. W...